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For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932

For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932

Materson, Lisa G.

Paperback

Black American StudiesRegional: MidwestWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1469600897
ISBN13: 9781469600895
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 1 2013
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black women's involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics. Examining the oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 -- a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in America -- Lisa Materson shows that as African American women migrated beyond the reach of southern white supremacists, they became active voters, canvassers, suffragists, campaigners, and lobbyists, mobilizing to gain a voice in national party politics and elect representatives who would push for the enforcement of the Reconstruction Amendments in the South.

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